Carolyn Mikulich Fletcher's Obituary
Carolyn Mikulich Fletcher, 63, of Germantown, Tennessee, died January 11 after a long struggle with breast cancer. Born in Lansing, Michigan, and raised in the Chicago suburb of South Holland, Carol attended the University of Illinois before joining Trans World Airlines as a flight attendant. She flew internationally and domestically from domiciles in Chicago, New York, and St. Louis for fifteen years. Carol returned to university and obtained a degree in physical therapy from the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, all the while raising three young children and caring for her home and husband. She practiced physical therapy in West Tennessee for nearly fifteen years, working primarily within the Baptist and Methodist hospital systems. Carol was a member of Idlewild Presbyterian Church in Memphis and served as a Deacon. She taught youth Sunday school classes at Idlewild, coached youth basketball and soccer, and tutored Memphis City School children in reading, science and math. She enjoyed travel, photography, antiquing, musical theater, college football, and sewing decorative items and children’s clothing for friends. She served on the Board of Theatre Memphis and the Board of the Navy League of Memphis, and was an ardent supporter of the Iris Orchestra. She is survived by her husband of 39 years, Gregory G. Fletcher; her children, Willard Scott Fletcher of Los Angeles, California; Anne C. Fletcher of Atlanta, Georgia; and Emily B. Fletcher, now Mrs. J. Kendall Wright, of Nashville; her parents, Stephen and Bernice Mikulich of Naples, Florida; her brother, Stephen Mikulich of San Mateo, California; and her sister, Janice Grosby of Sarasota, Florida. Visitation and a memorial service will be held at Idlewild Presbyterian Church, 1750 Union Ave., on Saturday, January 17. Visitation will begin at 2:00 p.m.; the memorial service will commence at 3:00 p.m. The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, a contribution be made to a charity of the donor’s choice, or to one of Carol’s favorite charities, St. Jude or LeBonheur Children’s hospitals, or to one of her favorite arts organizations, Theatre Memphis or the Iris Orchestra.Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Memorial Park Funeral and Cemetery, 5668 Poplar Ave. Memphis, TN 38119, “Behind the Stone Wall.”
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